Fabio Cifariello Ciardi

Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960) is a composer using sound and technology to mine real-word phenomena. His most recent interests are in sonification and instrumental transcription of speaking-voice rhythms and inflections.

He studied composition, electronic music and musicology at Rome Conservatory of Music and Bologna University. He studied with Tristan Murail, Philippe Manoury (IRCAM), Franco Donatoni (Accademia S.Cecilia). In 1991 he won the selection for the “Cursus de Informatique Musicale at IRCAM”. In 1995 he has been invited at EMS (Stockholm) and ì IMEB (Bourges) as composer in residence.

He has developed software algorithms for dissonance calculation, sound spatialization, financial data sonification, speaking-voice musical transcription and other computer-aided composition tools. Cifariello Ciardi collaborated with the Department of Psychology of “La Sapienza” University in Rome, the Research Institute for Music Theatre (Rome) publishing several works dedicated to music analysis, psychology and policy of music. Cifariello Ciardi collaborates with the Italian radio RAI-Radio3.

Cifariello Ciardi teaches composition at Trento Conservatory and one of the founding members of Edison Studio (http://www.edisonstudio.it).